On what product designers can learn from the Velveteen Rabbit.
When Seth was little, one of his favorite audio stories was The Velveteen Rabbit, narrated by Meryl Streep and accompanied
On guarding your innermost.
Wet torrential. Flashing light. Cozy in a coffeehouse. Justin, MacKenzie, Melissa and I, designers and artists we, reflecting on how
When you're in love with a broken city.
Yesterday, I read the saddest thing I’ve ever read in my life. In an interview with Bill Moyers, David
On pocket symphonies and ear candy.
I agree with Rob Walker: Radiolab is a beautiful thing. An experiment in auditory aesthetics (kind of Fluxus-y), its unique
When you're in love with a beautiful dog.
Photos by Callie Neylan.
This is Mies, the younger of my two Weimaraners. To make a long story short, he
How a pretty thing inspires me to write.
It’s always winter when I write. Beautiful, calm, soothing white winter.
As a child growing up in Colorado, there’
On Kant, aesthetics, and consumption.
I’ve been bantering back and forth with designers about aesthetics in design, via this fascinating discussion. Someone suggested that
Life is beautiful on public transportation.
When you think about it, we are all affordances.
The word “affordance” was originally invented by the perceptual psychologist J.
On Pearl Jam and wedding rings.
It was agreed. We would wear platinum. A metal known for strength and permanence. The perfect metaphor for “’til death
